Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Bigotry and Blasphemy
I was on the phone with my mom the other day. She and I discussed this year's academy award nominees. She told me she and my aunt went to see Brokeback Mountain this past weekend. She proceeded to tell me how much she enjoyed the movie and really cried over the sadness she felt for each of the characters.
"If more people went to see this movie, there would be much more tolerance in our society" she muses. I couldn't believe my mom was this progressive. She has always had a more liberal bent, but this was an attitude that made me jump for joy.
We then proceeded to discuss a few other items about her weekend, where she informed me that she watched The Road to Perdition on cable. She then talked about the sadness in that movie.
She further elaborated on another made-for-TV movie of which I can't remember the title. She also enjoyed this movie. I had seen the other two movies on her repertoire, so she needed to give me a synopsis of the third to tell me how it too made her sad about the injustice of the world.
"It was about this Negro school in Africa, with a strict Negro teacher". Negro?! Mom, what happened to your liberal attitude? That word has been on the no-no list for at least a decade. She realized the error and corrected it, and then she called herself out for being ignorantly insensitive.
Parents! Gotta love 'em. They support you in every way, they are there to build you up, and once you've done that, if they've done a decent job, you idolize or envy them. It's sometimes tough to admit that they too have faults. Sometimes they show their human side too. When they do, it makes you that much more proud to call them Mom or Dad.
"If more people went to see this movie, there would be much more tolerance in our society" she muses. I couldn't believe my mom was this progressive. She has always had a more liberal bent, but this was an attitude that made me jump for joy.
We then proceeded to discuss a few other items about her weekend, where she informed me that she watched The Road to Perdition on cable. She then talked about the sadness in that movie.
She further elaborated on another made-for-TV movie of which I can't remember the title. She also enjoyed this movie. I had seen the other two movies on her repertoire, so she needed to give me a synopsis of the third to tell me how it too made her sad about the injustice of the world.
"It was about this Negro school in Africa, with a strict Negro teacher". Negro?! Mom, what happened to your liberal attitude? That word has been on the no-no list for at least a decade. She realized the error and corrected it, and then she called herself out for being ignorantly insensitive.
Parents! Gotta love 'em. They support you in every way, they are there to build you up, and once you've done that, if they've done a decent job, you idolize or envy them. It's sometimes tough to admit that they too have faults. Sometimes they show their human side too. When they do, it makes you that much more proud to call them Mom or Dad.
# posted by Jay @ 8:22 AM 
